Month: November 2004

Over 60 skilled staff at the Scotstoun and Govan yards could be axed before Christmas following a purge affecting engineering draughtsmen, combat systems engineers and programme planners. The move was condemned by…

SCHIFFKO GmbH, the Hamburg-based ship design and consultancy company, has been awarded the contract for comprehensive consultancy services to UASC, United Arab Shipping Company, for their procurement of 8 new jumbo-size container…

After months of in-depth research, a team of independent consultants are allegedly to have concluded in a 46 page report that there is no future for commercial ship building at the Cammell…

State-owned Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin) will receive $76 million in loans from the Fund for Development to build five 53,000 DWT dry bulk carriers. This represents up to 65% of the…

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has decided to build 10 large car carriers that will be delivered from 2007 to 2009. The new construction plan follows a series of six carriers delivered in…

Organised by the Japan Ship Centre (JETRO), a seminar presentation is being made on the ?Mega-Float technology and its future potential?. The ?Mega-Float? was born from a Japanese R&D project initiated in…

Turbomeca, part of snecma group, has developed the TM 1800, a gas turbine genset, which is designed for sea propulsion and electricity generation, railways applications, combined heat and power (CHP), emergency power…

Following earlier announcements, Aker Yards will combine its entities in Finland into one organization and, in order to cover the costs of this restructuring, a non-recurring provision in the level EUR 18-20…

The big three Korean shipbuilders have secured a $3.5 billion order to build 8 LNG carriers which form part of the second phase (Qatar Liquefied Gas II) of a huge gas development…

The Shanghai-based Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (HZ) facility is the first Chinese yard to win a contract for post-Panamax container ships with a five-ship deal from China Shipping. China's largest domestic built container ships…